AB5, Tech Robber Barons And Slavery – With Journalist Steve Hill and Edward Escobar (Zoom event)
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AB5, Tech Robber Barons And Slavery – With Journalist Steve Hill and Edward Escobar (Zoom event)
July 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm
Free
ZOOM Recording
UBER, Lyft and other gig transportation platforms are spending over $120 million to overturn AB5 which required these companies to provide workers comp, social security and other protections. Will this law destroy the gig companies and what is the reality for gig workers and the future of work.
Professor Jack Linchuan Qiu – Author of “Goodbye iSlave” “Lifting the silicon heel from workers’ lives”
Steve Hill – Author of “Raw Deal: How the ‘Uber Economy’ and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers”, “Amazon Workers Fight Back”
Edward Escobar – Alliance for Independent Workers (AIW)
The video of this event will be uploaded soon.